Ido Abravaya On Bach's Rhythm and Tempo Bärenreiter Hochschulschriften Bochumer Arbeiten zur Musikwissenschaft, Volume 4 In English. 242 pages; paperback ISBN 13: 978-3-7618-1602-8 ISBN 10: 3-7618-1602-2 EUR 33.95

A Study on Bach's Rhythm and Tempo Tempo in music is difficult to capture in words. Are there any general rules governing its definition? Did standardized tempos exist in the Baroque period? Can we deduce the correct tempo of a piece from the appearance of the music on the page? To answer such questions Ido Abravaya provides the method of observing »durational strata«. He also examines such tempo-defining factors as time signatures and tempo marks and contrasts them with the theories of tempo in Bach’s age. The object of his study is to obtain insight from the vantage point of tempo into the larger area of rhythmic structures.